Yesterday, we drove from Lewisburg, West Virginia, to Elizabethtown, Kentucky. When we got hungry for lunch, we saw a billboard for a BBQ place that looked good and left the highway at Milton, WV, to find it. The sign's directions said that it was a couple of miles off the highway. At the restaurant, we saw a sign on the door saying that they were closed for an emergency. There was one woman outside getting in a pick-up who mimed an apology, but we don't know wha...

We arrived in the Washington, D.C. area on Saturday afternoon with reservations at the Bethesda Hyatt Regency. Traffic was busy all the way there and particularly in the city, but we made it without any significant slowdowns. Soon after getting on the beltway, we saw a sign warning that all lanes were closed a few miles ahead. We figured out that we needed to go farther than that point so we exited at the next available chance and used google maps on my phone to ...